Yellow Thinking of You Card

Using my new Sheer Heaven paper I printed an image of one of my floral arrangements and transferred it directly onto the yellow card stock. The rosewood figurine was brought back from Singapore almost 50 years ago. It was carved by a man from Bali.

Mural Walls

My friend Pat and I were asked to do murals on the walls of one of the Sunday School classrooms. The room is so huge that it has a room divider curtain across the middle to divide it into two rooms. First some of the men of the church painted the walls a sky blue, which fit in with the theme we had chosen - the different seasons. Each scene has a scripture accompanying it.

Hugs Birthday Card

This child's birthday card was made from two-sided cardstock. One side is golden yellow and the other is a lime green. I used my elephant stamp and a handcut stamp for the front of the card. The letters are embossed as well as the elephant. The green does not show up well in this scan.

Merrie's Quilled Angels

These precious angels were quilled by Merrie for my Bible study ladies.

ATC using Transfers

This ATC was made on watercolor paper onto which I had done a Sheer Heaven transfer. This is a special vellum-like paper that serves as a transfer medium when combined with isopropyl alcohol. The image is transferred to the receiving card by lightly burnishing. I also used a little gold embossing on this ATC.

Green ATC

This ATC was created by applying thin streams of Glossy Accents to green card stock. I then put down two different colors of green alcohol inks. I think this looks like a bunch of grapes so I may include it in my Italy series of ATCs. I affixed the green card stock to a yellow card to make it the correct 2.5x3.5 size. The texture achieved with this combination of glaze and AI is amazing. I can't take credit for dreaming it up, though. Another artist had this kind of background on her blog, only she used a different kind of glaze. When I locate her website again, I'll post the link.

Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains
Originally uploaded by hastingshall2

I love the vastness of the west. This is a watercolor painting from my imagination. Of course, I realize the colors are a bit exaggerated, but I wanted to point out the beautiful colors that can be found out there. Sometimes when we think "west" we think of sand and browns and tans. There are just rainbows of color to the mountains and big sky.

Card using Sheer Heaven®

My order for Sheer Heaven® arrived. I have been experimenting with it to make transfers for my ATCs and cards. Sheer Heaven® is a finely etched plastic sheet, similar to vellum, but far more versatile. It can be colored with paints of all kinds and with pencils. The most fascinating use for me is the transfers. For some reason there is a wonderful reaction between 70% alcohol and the Sheer Heaven® in that it works perfectly as a transfer medium. Here I used the computer image from a scanned ATC as the transfer and stamped around that image with a hand-cut stamp. It is embossed with fine gold powder. I have dry embossed a rectangular margin about 3/8 inch from the card edges.